Overview
- Authorities concluded search-and-rescue on Friday and cautioned that detailed police entries could uncover more remains.
- Roughly 200 people remain unaccounted for, 79 were injured including about a dozen firefighters, and 37-year-old firefighter Ho Wai-ho was confirmed among the dead.
- The anti-graft agency arrested eight more people tied to the renovation — consultants, project managers, scaffolding subcontractors and a middleman — after police earlier detained three from contractor Prestige Construction on suspicion of manslaughter.
- Fire Services officials reported that alarm systems in all eight towers were not functional when inspected after the blaze.
- The government announced financial support including a HK$300 million relief fund, a HK$50,000 living allowance per affected household, and HK$200,000 for families of the deceased.